Your easy proof is completely wrong. There's discrimination against white men if the hiring bar is higher for them. To check this using workforce statistics you'd need to compare the fraction of white men in the workforce to what it would be with the same hiring bar for everyone. Comparing the fraction to the magic number 50% is irrelevant.
mcphage|8 years ago
If there was the same hiring bar for everyone, then wouldn't the a company (such as Google) who has the ability to hire only the best, end up with a distribution which matches the population as a whole?
IanDrake|8 years ago
Reality is that African Americans are not doing well as a segment of the population, for whatever reason.
Reality is that compared to men, women aren’t as interested in STEM, for whatever reason.
Reality is that Asian Americans are doing very well in STEM and other fields, for whatever reason.
Removing reasons from the equation, you have to realize that reality will dictate the distribution of the best candidates for these jobs.
these are all generalizations. A woman can be more interested and better in STEM than a man, but the left forces us to generalize by gender and race, which ultimately lead to statistics that make people uncomfortable.
* I provided no citations for these generalizations for the sake of time, but if anyone disagrees I can provide them.